Children Of The River Summary

children of the river children of the river is about a girl name sundara moving away from cambodia and leaving her family behind. Cambodia is where she and her family grew up and she had to leave and get on the airplan because khmer rouge was taking over cambodia and her parents wanted her to be safe so they sent her to america to live with her younger ant. Her younger aunt sent her to school. when she went to school there was this boy name jonathan that asked her if she wanted to eat lunch with him she said yes so they went outside to eat lunch together. jonathan asked her questions about cambodia and she told him what was her flight to america was and how many stops they made. Jonathan loved hearing her storys about cambodia. jonathan played football and was one of the best football players on the field. …show more content…
Everyday they would go outside and eat lunch together and talk about cambodia. One dayher aunt found out that she was hanging out with jonathan. she said she was no longer ever to see him. then he asked her to go to lake with her she had said in cambodia we are not aloud to go on dates he said it wasnt really a date but it was so she thought about what her aunt said and she thought to her self how would she ever fing out so she said yes. on saterday she went to go meet his parents. She said they were really nice and didnt care if her skin is darker than his. They started to head down to the lake and got on the boat. soon they hit and big wave and her and jonathan were sitting on the ege of the boat. Sundara fell off intill jonathan cought her by her shirt and brought her back up he pulled her closeer to him and wraped his arms around her. her aunt found out that she went with him she said this will never happend again or you going to be in big trouble. the next day she went to school and told jonathan that she wasnt allowed to talk to him and walked away.a few days later jonathan was in the hospital, sundra couldnt help her self but to